As I was heading upstairs on my lunch break yesterday at the local Denver bookstore where I work, I noticed a book for kids on display about Che Guevara, Fidel Castro's fellow Cuban revolutionary. Perhaps it's just me, but I think that is a strange topic for a children's book. I mentioned this to co-workers at the bookstore and at my part-time evening job, and nobody thought it was out of the ordinary. I suppose it is just me. I am all for normalizing relations with Cuba, and long for the day that the car ferry between Key West, Florida and Havana starts up again. I will be the first car in line. But seriously, what kind of parents would buy this book for their kids? The children of former Cuban revolutionaries? Did a lot of them settle in Denver? The mind boggles.
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